Author Topic: [FF7] Tutorial for Bootleg - Tifa's Bootleg (Read 2436006 times)

Boulton123 · « **Reply #925 on:** 2013-06-30 18:30:36 »

This tutorial is great! Nothing went wrong or felt confusing. These a great variety of mods to pick from but don't expect a remake like I did.

By the way, I love your avatar image, if you're still live on this thread could you send me a link for download or something, that would be great

mr_nygren · « **Reply #926 on:** 2013-07-04 09:20:47 »

Quote from: EQ2Alyza on 2012-07-08 20:44:12

PitBrat answered below.

The game seem to be working but everything went black at the first battle..

Then it crashes..

Help?

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #927 on:** 2013-07-04 13:52:28 »

Post your APP.log with code tags.

DraigoDragon · « **Reply #928 on:** 2013-07-04 14:05:24 »

I need some help that been making me flip table left and right...

I have no music so I looked through the troubleshoot/solved section and found a-couple of thing's but they have not worked, One of them may have made thing's worse I can't say till I check the game one more time tomorrow, Let's just say when I clicked the exe and went as normal but Instead of going to the logo It just went as a black screen that I could not escape from AT ALL so I had to shutdown >.> help please "Begs"

dkma841 · « **Reply #929 on:** 2013-07-04 17:27:44 »

Quote from: Template on 2013-06-30 05:07:31

Sorry Alyza, I just now saw this... If you do downloads separately like I do (out of habit), when you have an installer that hasn't been run before, windows will put up a prompt asking if it's ok to run this application with a checkbox for "always do this action for this file" or something like that. if you dont check that box and just hit cancel, then Bootleg won't install the Avalanche GUI and it won't have a hiccup on the item that comes next or whatever is going on with Aeris Revival. IF Avalanche GUI isn't in the bootleg install folder with the rest of the mods, bootleg will claim the Aeris Revival is missing and move on to the next item, with no more errors as far as I could tell.

There is no option in Bootleg NOT to install the Avalanche GUI, it comes up red if its not in the install folder no matter what. And it absolutely does slightly conflict with Menu Overhaul. There's like 50 extra unneeded files in the mods/menu folder if you use avalanche gui. It is the cause for the asymmetrical black border of the HP bars in the menu. Presumably there are other issues but that always bugged me and that is what causes it.

It is ALSO the reason people can't easily switch out their menu materia icons. If you try to toss my brightened materia pack into your mods/menu folder (made from either Grimmy or Romeo14's graphics; I really don't know who did them), they don't work unless you haven't installed Avalanche GUI with bootleg.

Thanks for that brightened materia pack will use this when im done installing ffvii 2012 on my fresh pc, btw should i follow those steps when i install with Bootleg to make sure the Menu Overhaul install was more successful or not damaged? Haven't been able to play this for a long time due to crappy pc now ahh finally ^^ ..haven't installed yet will do sometime today

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #930 on:** 2013-07-04 21:55:32 »

I've updated the Tutorial:

1. Added the new Steam release as a modding option.
2. Added Kompass63's GC as a STEP 0 (Hopefully PitBrat can take a look at it for possibly implementing into 040.1).
3. Added disabling UAC to STEP 3.
4. Added Template's workaround to skipping Avalanche GUI 2.0 in STEP 9. This is to avoid incompatibilities with Menu Overhaul.
5. Added three more Q&A's:

How to fix a black screen with red triangles on the start menu.
How to fix cut off counters/timers, such as the Shinra Mansion Safe.
How to fix a crash when opening the last chest on Floor 65 of the Shinra HQ

If I've missed something or anything else would like to be suggested, please let me know

rossfarquhar · « **Reply #931 on:** 2013-07-04 22:42:55 »

hi, when using the BootLoader i set the resolution to 1920x1080...but when i go to start the game it says "failed to set the requested fullscreen mode, reverting to original resolution windows mode"... how do i fix this so i can play full screen

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #932 on:** 2013-07-04 23:35:14 »

Quote from: rossfarquhar on 2013-07-04 22:42:55

hi, when using the BootLoader i set the resolution to 1920x1080...but when i go to start the game it says "failed to set the requested fullscreen mode, reverting to original resolution windows mode"... how do i fix this so i can play full screen

Please post your APP.log with code tags.

rossfarquhar · « **Reply #933 on:** 2013-07-04 23:47:44 »

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
ERROR: failed to set fullscreen mode
INFO: Intel Intel(R) HD Graphics 2.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2827
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Number of texture units: 8
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: Shader limits: varying 41, vert uniform 512, frag uniform 1024
INFO: vertex shader compile log:
No errors.

INFO: fragment shader compile log:
No errors.

INFO: main program link log:
No errors.

INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Games\FF7\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; indeo5/pcm_s16le 640x480, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 12.933333, frames: 388
INFO: slow output format from video codec indeo5; 6
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
WM_CLOSE
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Field Quit
UNINITIALIZE DD
END UNINITIALIZE DD

rossfarquhar · « **Reply #934 on:** 2013-07-04 23:52:10 »

Quote from: EQ2Alyza on 2013-07-04 23:35:14

Please post your APP.log with code tags.

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
ERROR: failed to set fullscreen mode
INFO: Intel Intel(R) HD Graphics 2.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2827
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Number of texture units: 8
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: Shader limits: varying 41, vert uniform 512, frag uniform 1024
INFO: vertex shader compile log:
No errors.

INFO: fragment shader compile log:
No errors.

INFO: main program link log:
No errors.

INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Games\FF7\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; indeo5/pcm_s16le 640x480, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 12.933333, frames: 388
INFO: slow output format from video codec indeo5; 6
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
WM_CLOSE
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Field Quit
UNINITIALIZE DD
END UNINITIALIZE DD

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #935 on:** 2013-07-05 00:39:26 »

Be careful about double posting.

I see you're running on Intel HD Graphics, which isn't supported. Are you running on a laptop? Does it have a dedicated graphics card? Give me some system specs please.

rossfarquhar · « **Reply #936 on:** 2013-07-05 00:48:38 »

Quote from: EQ2Alyza on 2013-07-05 00:39:26

Be careful about double posting.

I see you're running on Intel HD Graphics, which isn't supported. Are you running on a laptop? Does it have a dedicated graphics card? Give me some system specs please.

i dont know how to find that specs... ive played ff7 on full screen before

Kompass63 · « **Reply #937 on:** 2013-07-05 00:54:42 »

Maybe set your resolution to 1280x960...

rossfarquhar · « **Reply #938 on:** 2013-07-05 01:08:47 »

Quote from: rossfarquhar on 2013-07-05 00:48:38

i dont know how to find that specs... ive played ff7 on full screen before

can i change these resolutions....and how?--> Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #939 on:** 2013-07-05 01:19:03 »

Open FF7 Bootloader and push the "Configure" button.

You're going to have crashes/freezes if you don't have it play off a video card. Are you playing on a laptop or a desktop?

rossfarquhar · « **Reply #940 on:** 2013-07-05 01:42:16 »

Quote from: EQ2Alyza on 2013-07-05 01:19:03

Open FF7 Bootloader and push the "Configure" button.

You're going to have crashes/freezes if you don't have it play off a video card. Are you playing on a laptop or a desktop?

laptop

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #941 on:** 2013-07-05 02:01:10 »

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=13212.msg183582#msg183582

Read the 2nd question that talks about setting up an Nvidia video card. Hopefully you don't have ATI.

Kompass63 · « **Reply #942 on:** 2013-07-05 02:05:33 »

Heee, my ATI card had no problems

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #943 on:** 2013-07-05 02:20:42 »

That's not what I meant. I don't own any ATI cards, so I won't be able to help him with it

rossfarquhar · « **Reply #944 on:** 2013-07-05 02:22:33 »

its ok i fixed it myself. i have no idea what my graphic card is or where... i just seen some resolution numbers sum where and typed them into the bootloader....works fine now.....and whats an ATI :/

Kaldarasha · « **Reply #945 on:** 2013-07-05 02:31:11 »

ATI is short for: Anti Terror Informatic.

Template · « **Reply #946 on:** 2013-07-05 04:40:51 »

I really like ATI because it's cheap and usually works fine. If I could build a new system I would certainly go with Intel for the guts this time... but I think I would still consider an ATI video processor. I am very curious to see what happens in the coming months and if they continue to roll out drivers that conflict with aali's opengl, since it's beginning to look like that was a final version. With the 25th anniversary edition upcoming and a remake being hinted at, perhaps there is need for caution and secrecy.

Konoco · « **Reply #947 on:** 2013-07-05 04:47:06 »

Does anyone know what's causing these white lines to show up?

It seemed like everything downloaded and installed correctly, and this is the only issue that I've seen. Any fix for this would be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

DraigoDragon · « **Reply #948 on:** 2013-07-05 04:57:14 »

Hi I installed the mod and I can start the game but I have no music at all I do have sound effects and yes... I have looked through the trouble shoot section and have tried some of there Idea's, They have not worked though.

Help would be nicely appreciated.

DraigoDragon · « **Reply #949 on:** 2013-07-05 05:10:55 »

Quote from: EQ2Alyza on 2013-07-04 21:55:32

I've updated the Tutorial:

1. Added the new Steam release as a modding option.
2. Added Kompass63's GC as a STEP 0 (Hopefully PitBrat can take a look at it for possibly implementing into 040.1).
3. Added disabling UAC to STEP 3.
4. Added Template's workaround to skipping Avalanche GUI 2.0 in STEP 9. This is to avoid incompatibilities with Menu Overhaul.
5. Added three more Q&A's:
How to fix a black screen with red triangles on the start menu.
How to fix cut off counters/timers, such as the Shinra Mansion Safe.
How to fix a crash when opening the last chest on Floor 65 of the Shinra HQ

If I've missed something or anything else would like to be suggested, please let me know

How to fix the music If you have none at the start of the game?